Gun Control Topic

**Graus** · 12-15-2012, 04:20 AM

Originally Posted by rashka

Are you trying to tell us something?

What do you think?

**Sarmatian** · 12-15-2012, 04:44 AM

In ancient world carrying a weapon was a sign of a free man. When state monopolizing the right to violence it's on the way to tyranny.

Originally Posted by rashka

Get rid of all the guns NOW. Pass the damn law!! People must hand in their guns. This is the only way to stop any more of these these blood thirsty psychopathic acts. Shooting sprees in America are always going to happen, at the shopping mall, cinema, high school, etc. There is not a month that passes when I don't hear about a breaking news story of another shooting spree.After each massacre, we say never again, but it always comes back in one way or another. Put a control on the guns now.

You missing the point. If in that US school some adult person would've had a gun he/she might have had a chance to stop the massacre before it even started.

**Mary** · 12-15-2012, 04:54 AM

Originally Posted by Alex Delarge

Only policemen should carry firearms. It should be illegal for everyone else, although criminals would still get them in the black market.

Even for hunting. Want to hunt? Use spears or a longbow...

You serious?

There's a reason why most countries don't allow this.

**Mary** · 12-15-2012, 04:58 AM

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**Lux Aeterna** · 12-15-2012, 05:28 AM

I think people have the right to own guns if they wish, whether it's for protection, a hobby, collecting, blowing your head off, hunting... Like others allready said, those who wants to use a gun badly will get one either way, and it's fairly easy to even make a homemade gun;

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And it's not even that hard to make one, pretty much all you need are pipes, metal pieces, screws and some technical skills

You can learn how to make one just by getting instructions off the internet. These homemade guns are pretty damn effective and are common in Central America's gangs, like the MS13 and so on, since they simply can't afford proper guns... These guys are a good example of high murder rate without the access of legal guns.

**Lux Aeterna** · 12-15-2012, 05:45 AM

Lol if this guy can make a gun, everyone can

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**Loki** · 12-15-2012, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by Loki

Fact of the matter is that all of these mass shootings seem to come from people with legal firearms.

Watch this CNN interview with Piers Morgan:

China attack illustrates U.S. gun law divide

Hong Kong (CNN) -- On Friday morning, a man walked through the entrance of an elementary school and, without warning, began ruthlessly cutting down children at the school. Before he was subdued, nearly two dozen were hit.

While it sounds like the horrific massacre in Connecticut, this attack took place about 8,000 miles away in central China. And while several of the victims were reported in critical condition, none of the 22 children were killed.

The 36-year-old suspect in China -- which has strict gun control laws -- attacked the children with a knife, according to local reports.

"The huge difference between this case and the U.S. is not the suspect, nor the situation, but the simple fact he did not have an effective weapon," said Dr. Ding Xueliang, a Harvard-educated sociologist at the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong.

As the world shares in the horror of the attack that left at least 28 dead, including 20 school children, the attack has rekindled the gun-control debate in the U.S. and international wonder at the propensity of gun-related deaths in America.

"In terms of the U.S., there's much easier availability of killing instruments -- rifles, machine guns, explosives -- than in nearly every other developed country," Dr. Ding said.

"In the United States, we had 9,000 people killed with guns last year, in similar countries like Germany 170 (killed with guns), in Canada 150. There's a reason for that," Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, told CNN's Piers Morgan.

"The proof in the pudding is that in every other industrialized nation except the United States, they have reasonable gun control laws, and they have hundreds of people killed each year -- not 9,000 or 10,000 a year -- killed by guns."

**Minesweeper** · 12-15-2012, 02:49 PM

Gun owning laws are one of the rare things that I like about USA.

If someone needs a gun in order to commit crime, he'll find one. At least here, finding an illegal weapon is not harder than finding drugs, you just ask the right person and order what you need, from pistol to rocket launcher.